Plate boundary deformation between the Pacific and North America in the Explorer region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 225-238

  Kreemer, Corné ^a,c   Govers, Rob ^a   Furlong, Kevin P ^b   Holt, William E ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032529185     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00089-4     Document Type: Article

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